Following Chakotay and Harry Kim's successfully returned to Earth in 2375, aboard the Delta Flyer, and at the cost of the loss of USS Voyager, Kim experienced incredible survivor guilt. He signed onto this, the first deep space vessel he could find, in order to locate Voyager. According to Kim, "We tried to calculate where Voyager might have fallen out of the slipstream." They searched for four years, and according to Kim, "We were close, I could feel it!", but Starfleet Command had other ideas, and called off the search in 2381, citing a "low probability of success," forcing Kim to ultimately resignStarfleet and pursue his own search. (VOY: "Timeless")

According to the script for this episode, Hanson's ship was a Galaxy-class starship. He was seen in the ship's ready room and battle bridge. It is stated in the script that the ship was in battle when the final transmission was sent to the Enterprise-D. [1]

No other information regarding Ross' flagship was indicated onscreen or noted in the episode's script other than at one point it is noted, while Ross is on the viewscreen, that "his ship is taking a pounding as well." In the novelization, Ross is aboard the Farragut.

This starship was Natasha Yar's assignment before her transfer to the USS Enterprise-D in 2364. The ship responded to a distress call from colonists in the Carnelian minefield. The ship's captain owed a favor to Jean-Luc Picard. (TNG: "Legacy")

This ship was a rough-build combination of an Excelsior-refit class parts with two nacelles attached like on normal Excelsior-class ships, and a third connected at the bottom of the saucer with a Constitution-class nacelled pylon. No name or registry was assigned to this model. The only data about this model comes from the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Technical Manual, though the picture shown in the manual is incorrect.

In 2377, two deep space vessels were redirected toward the position of USS Voyager. A rendezvous of the three ships was expected sometime in 2382 or 2383. Admiral Hayes mentioned these ships in a message sent to the Voyager. (VOY: "Life Line")